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The Norton Sampler is a collection of short essays for composition students. Like the cloth samplers that schoolchildren produced in colonial times to practice their stitches (and, at the same time, their ABCs), The Norton Sampler is based on the assumption that writing is a practical art that can be learned by studying some basic rhetorical patterns -- narration, description, comparison, and the like. Book jacket.

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• Thematic Contents(p. xvii)
• Preface(p. xxv)
• Introduction(p. 3)
• The Death of a Moth(p. 4)
• How I Wrote the Moth Essay--and Why(p. 8)
• The Processes of Writing(p. 16)
• The Modes of Writing(p. 16)
• Mixing the Modes(p. 18)
• Chapter 1 Description(p. 21)
• RealTime Writing / Catalog Description(p. 26)
• The Miss Dennis School of Writing(p. 28)
• A View from the Bridge(p. 37)
• No Rainbows, No Roses(p. 42)
• No Wonder They Call Me a Bitch(p. 47)
• Chapter 2 Narrative(p. 54)
• RealTime Writing / Obituary(p. 58)
• The Ashen Guy: Lower Broadway, September 11, 2001(p. 60)
• The Lion in Winter(p. 65)
• The Back of the Bus(p. 72)
• None of This Is Fair(p. 81)
• Frank Sinatra's Gum(p. 88)
• Chapter 3 Example(p. 93)
• RealTime Writing / Girl Scout Cookie Box(p. 99)
• All Seven Deadly Sins Committed at Church Bake Sale(p. 101)
• The Invisible Flying Cat(p. 106)
• English Is a Crazy Language(p. 110)
• Jazz: Music Beyond Time and Nations(p. 116)
• Homeward Bound(p. 123)
• Chapter 4 Classification and Division(p. 127)
• RealTime Writing / www.dailycandy.com(p. 130)
• Mother Tongue(p. 132)
• The Color of Success(p. 140)
• What Do You Call a Platypus?(p. 146)
• Science, Guided by Ethics, Can Lift Up the Poor(p. 154)
• The Rise of the Blended American(p. 159)
• Chapter 5 Process Analysis(p. 163)
• RealTime Writing / How to Make Razzleberry Lemonade(p. 168)
• How to Fend Off a Shark(p. 170)
• How Boys Become Men(p. 174)
• The Spider and the Wasp(p. 179)
• How to Write a Letter(p. 187)
• How to Get Out of a Locked Trunk(p. 192)
• Chapter 6 Comparison and Contrast(p. 200)
• RealTime Writing / Baseball Stats(p. 204)
• Grammy Rewards(p. 206)
• Body Imperfect(p. 209)
• Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts(p. 212)
• Like Mexicans(p. 218)
• Gender in the Classroom(p. 224)
• Remembering My Childhood on the Continent of Africa(p. 233)
• Chapter 7 Definition(p. 241)
• RealTime Writing / www.savethemanatee.org(p. 244)
• Guys vs. Men(p. 246)
• In Praise of the Humble Comma(p. 254)
• How Come the Quantum?(p. 260)
• Bop(p. 265)
• If You Are What You Eat, Then What Am I?(p. 269)
• Chapter 8 Cause and Effect(p. 276)
• RealTime Writing / Outside Magazine Q&A(p. 282)
• Climbing the Golden Arches(p. 284)
• Prison Man Considers Turkey(p. 290)
• Who Killed Easter Island?(p. 295)
• A Giant Step(p. 303)
• The Wounds That Can't Be Stitched Up(p. 309)
• Chapter 9 Argument(p. 314)
• RealTime Writing / Sign on an Old House(p. 320)
• The Declaration of Independence(p. 322)
• The Island of Plenty(p. 328)
• The Price of Power: Living in the Nuclear Age(p. 334)
• Being Prepared in Suburbia(p. 340)
• Safe-Sex Lies(p. 345)
• Reply to the U.S. Government(p. 352)
• Chapter 10 Classic Essays(p. 358)
• A Modest Proposal(p. 362)
• Politics and the English Language(p. 373)
• Learning the River(p. 388)
• The Death of the Moth(p. 396)
• Once More to the Lake(p. 400)
• On Keeping a Notebook(p. 408)
• Glossary(p. 417)
• Permissions Acknowledgments(p. 425)
• Index(p. 431)

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